The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-11
Proud Mrs. BrandIeth.

West Indians are endowed with more
pride than is good for them, and she
was an instance. Perhaps it was the
blacks, or the climate, or living on an
island where there was no aristocracy
save that which was constituted by
money. She was very rich, there was
no doubt of that and she had very
lovely daughter, there was also no
doubt of that-a fair-ha ired girl, with
large dreamy eyes, and fair skin, and
lips that suggested a pout. yet broke
into the most enchanting of smiles now
and then-not very often either per-
haps the girls life had been lonely, as
an only chlld's often is, and perhaps
she was half afraid of her mother Her
happiest days had been her school
days she had been sent to England
for her education, and when she re-
turned to te narrow circle, and the
stiff, uncompromising mother, who
since her husband death had managed
the estate herself, and was absorbed in
the produce of sugar and the politics of
of government house, Alice felt lonely
and weary enough. Yet Mrs. Brandleth
was very proud of her beau tiful daugh-
ter, and waited serenely, convinced
that the day would com when wan
dering duke, or perhaps a stray prince
sent over to improve his knowledge
of tropics, would fall in love with her
and insist upon laying his name, rank
and fortune at her feet Having this
conviction strong upon her, it was pro-
voking when one fine day Alice in
formed her, trembling enough, that
she engaged herself to Hugh Trevor,
young surgeon who was vainly trying
to get practice in the island-for the
population was more inclined to trust
Its broken bones and epidemics into the
hands of older practitioners.
'If you dare to think of such a
thing she exclaimed, "Tll leave every
penny away from you, and what is
more, l will let you starve rather than
give you a shill,ng;" after which COM
Portable assurance, having no money
and no prospects, the pair prudently
got married on the sly, and trusted to
'"'luck."
Luck betrayed the trust and never
came near them. or only luck of the
the worst description did, so they re-
allied all they had. and, after one un-
awaiting appeal to Mrs. Brandleth, de-
termined to leave the West Indies and
seek for better for tunes in England.
II should so like to see my old
friends again; yes. do let us go, Hugh
dear; besides, we can make better
fight with poverty there than here,
Alice said, thinking wistfully of her
school days, and little bitterly of the
manner in which her tropical acquaint-
ance had cut her since her marriage.
So with two hundred pounds in the
world they set out for England.
ut is no use trying in London"
Hugh said. I'VE should only be lost in
the crowd, and, allowed to starve
quietly. Wen go to some small sea-
side place, or country village, and set
up, and hope for the best Unless there
Is some one there before u.s. patients
must come in time"-a reasonable sup
position when one considers that, in the
long run, disease and death are never
nconstant long together anywhere.
'Lct us 60 by the sea, them" plead
ed Alice; so they went to Drayton-on-
Sea, small seaside place where fisher
folks abounded, and where there were
hills around, with here and there
houses scattered about, all inhabited by
the probable patients Of Hugh Trevor S
future.
There was no surgeon at Drayton-on-
Sea before Hugh Trevor went there,
but a railway came soon after they
settled there, and very soon after that
surgeon-an older man, with long
experience and practlced more
for love than fees. for he was well of,
and so the bright future the Trevors
were seeking was still far away.
"Oh, Hughl what shall we do?" poor
Alice said, looking up with troubled
eyes at her husband. Their second
child was just born. and their last bank
note just changed,
Never Ind. my darling" he said